Does web-based training meet OSHA’s requirements? With 10-20 percent of Industrial Safety & Hygiene News readers now using web-based training, and up to one-third of readers planning to go online for training in the next three years, ISHN asked OSHA what it thinks about this trend.
The agency’s position is outlined in three “letters of interpretation”, the most recent one written to an environmental training firm in October, 1999, by OSHA chief Charles Jeffress. All three letters focus on the issues of hands-on training and trainer availability. Jeffress makes these points: